Aylwyn Scally, a researcher in human evolutionary genetics at the University of Cambridge, discusses an ancient skull that ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Ancient, life-size rock carvings depicting camels, gazelles, and other animals have been unearthed in the Saudi Arabian ...

Ancient, life-size rock carvings depicting camels, gazelles, and other animals have been unearthed in the Saudi Arabian desert, with researchers dating the remarkable artworks back approximately ...

Could megalithic tombs and henges in Europe be reconstructions of older wooden monuments? This theory challenges radiocarbon dating methods that date only soil and organic remains, not the stones ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilisation that ...

Homo sapiens may have split off from ancestor species in Asia around a million years ago, rather than in Africa 600,000 years ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

Led by paleoanthropologist Professor Chris Stringer from London’s Natural History Museum, the team originally believed the skull to be an earlier ancestor of humanity, named Homo erectus, because it ...

A unique exhibit on display at the Walters Art Museum combines the love of animals with ancient history.